It will be tough for members at the Smiths Falls Golf and Country Club to leave the clubhouse Sunday with Brooke Henderson holding a one-stroke lead to start the final round of the CP Women’s Open in Regina.

Larry McIntosh, vice-president of the golf club’s board of directors, said Smiths Falls residents would be glued to their TVs while the 20-year-old hometown hero pursued victory in the LPGA Tour event.

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“Everybody will be pretty excited about it at the club,” McIntosh said Saturday after Henderson finished the third round of play at Regina’s Wascana Country Club with the lead.

McIntosh had a chance to tune in to the telecast on Saturday and became worried that he had somehow jinxed Henderson when she missed a short putt.

However, Henderson managed to finish the round with a 2-under-par score of 70, giving her a 14-under-par total for the tournament and a one-shot lead over Nasa Hataoka and Angel Yin.

Winning the national women’s open golf championship would be a major accomplishment for Henderson. Jocelyne Bourassa is the only Canadian woman to have won an LPGA Tour event on home soil, and that happened in the inaugural edition of what was then called La Canadienne in 1973.

The Smiths Falls Golf and Country Club, Henderson’s home club, always pays attention when she’s in tournament play.

“Everyone is following all the time,” club general manager Dan McNeely said.

Henderson is scheduled to tee off in the final group of the tournament at 11:01 a.m. ET.

LPGA Tour officials moved the previously scheduled tee times ahead because rain and possible thunderstorms are in the forecast for Regina on Sunday afternoon. The television broadcast time on TSN1 and TSN3 is 1-4 p.m, while on Golf Channel it’s 2-5 p.m. ET.

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